Today in history

May 6, 1931 - Payroll money totaling $1,500 also lost in blaze: Damage in excess of $200,000 was claimed today as result of a fire of undetermined origin that destroyed the De Pere Paper Manufacturing company plant, one house, eight barns, a garage and damaged a restaurant and several other buildings.

It was the most disastrous conflagration in the history of De Pere. Starting in a group of barns in the west side business district, shortly after 3 o'clock, flaming embers, it is believed, were carried by a high south wind to the mill of the De Pere Paper Manufacturing company operated by Morris and Herman Miller of Green Bay, and caused the destruction of that plant.

Only the supreme efforts, by the De Pere and Green Bay fire departments, and scores of men working in the residential districts in the vicinity of the two fires, was considerable other property saved.

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Today in history

May 6, 1931 - Payroll money totaling $1,500 also lost in blaze: Damage in excess of $200,000 was claimed today as result of a fire of undetermined origin that destroyed the De Pere Paper

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